I can’t believe you guys are going to start reviewing porn movies.
Yes, it surprised us too. But once we started to consider the possibilities of what Kelly might do with an hardcorpsis, we couldn’t not.
-xtien
Bonus!
There’s XXX: The Return of Xander Cage and later, there will be XX, the all-female directed horror anthology.
It was interesting that you guys talked about a novel writer maybe not knowing what to cut out of a script. There was a similarly themed discussion about Ex-Machina with Alex Garland directing his own script where everything seemed pretty much just right with no excess from the script.
Ah yes, now I remember that. Good catch, Chris.
And sorry again for neglecting your comments during the show. I wasn’t thinking. I’m particularly annoyed that I didn’t share your questions with Kelly and Tom, as I thought they were worth listening to.
For those not privy to the details of the email I’m referring to, Chris had a question for each one of us at the end of his comments…
For @tomchick : “What did you think of the portrayal of cancer in the movie?”
For @Kelly_Wand : “Did you like the fact that it was a fairly dark movie for what I am assuming is a kids movie?”
For me : “I know what a parents worst fear would be. Is the second worst fear, something happening to you so that you can’t be there for your child?”
As for the question directed at me, I’d probably say that is true. As I get older I often think of how my son would navigate the world if something were to happen to me. It scares me to think of what would happen to him in that case, especially with his teenage years on the horizon. Fortunately he’s got a very good mom, and otherwise super-supportive extended family, so I know he’d be okay in the long run. But there are things that he really only gets out of our relationship, and those would disappear or have to otherwise be replaced, and as I get older that sense is enormously disquieting.
I think this is another point of failure with A Monster Calls. Or maybe with the Felicity Jones performance. She’s making sure Grandma will look after him, and that his estranged dad will somehow become more active, but I don’t get that sense of desperation from her that she is leaving him and thereby removing the most important relationship in his life. Even the scenes in Guardians of the Galaxy, which I referenced a few times, found a way to do that. Those Awesome Mix tapes Peter’s mother bequeaths to him have a huge impact upon him as he goes out into the cold of space. I suppose maybe Mum’s drawing book could be analogous in this case, but it doesn’t have the impact for me.
Thank you again, Chris.
-xtien
“I believe everything I say.”
I was really confused by your insistence that the term “shot” in a movie rightly refers to a single frame.
Isn’t it also really common to refer to an unbroken sequence in a film with no camera cuts as “a single shot”? As in “that shot of the camera circling around the Avengers” or “that action scene in Children of Men that’s all one shot” or even “the entire movie Rope is edited so as to appear as a single continuous shot.”